Medical Marijuana

Modern medical research has discovered beneficial uses for marijuana in treating or alleviating pain, nausea, and other symptoms associated with certain debilitating medical conditions, as found by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine in March 1999. Several states, including Rhode Island,
permit the medical use and cultivation of marijuana under certain circumstances. more Rhode Island's Medical Marijuana Act does not alter federal statutes and regulations prohibiting the possession and use of marijuana.

Approved Qualifying Debilitating Medical Conditions

Cancer or the treatment of this condition

Glaucoma or the treatment of this condition

Positive status for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or the treatment of this condition

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or the treatment of this condition

Hepatitis C or the treatment of this condition

A chronic or debilitating disease or medical condition or its treatment that produces one or more of the following:

Cachexia or wasting syndrome

Severe, debilitating, chronic pain

Severe nausea

Seizures, including but not limited to those characteristic of epilepsy

Severe and persistent muscle spasms, including but not limited to those characteristic of multiple sclerosis or Crohn's disease